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• 30 May 08
  

  Katharina Andresen

  ux_ia personas process usability design

• 15 Feb 08
  

  plan Strategic

  Personas

• 05 Nov 07
  

  Perry Branch

  design examples personas

  • There are many qualities I appreciate about this chart, such as just enough information to understand who these folks are (more detail if you click the link), specific characteristics about how they would engage with this product, good images to help us believe in these as individuals. All of these are great at creating empathy for them, and helping designers better understand how to serve them.
  • But there’s one thing that keeps them at arm’s length: “The researcher,” “The Sysadmin,” “The OSS Developer,” “The CS Student.” It is common practice for personas to be given these kinds of user type labels but that practice diminishes our ability to empathize.
  • There should be PLENTY of relevant detail available (or discoverable) to make personas interesting, personal, and “real.” We shouldn’t just make it up.

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• 27 Mar 07
  

  nanaow

  persona usability research ia fromdelicious

• 20 Mar 07
  

  Christopher Arnold

  blog article research practice technique imported

• 18 Mar 07
  

  Chrys R

  usability ux webdesign

• 16 Mar 07
  

  Alan Dean

  For the longest time, I was skeptical of the value of personas in the user-centered design process. They felt too narrow, too constricted, too idiosyncratic for me to design for.

  Persona

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